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Topic History of: Calling intelligent, brave, independent publishers!
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Prunella Minge |
It's an awkward time of year. The best (free) thing would be to get some mentions in 'Books of the Year' lists next December and then (because publishers these days are appalling relativists) get a deal for 2011. But the book really does deserve to be read widely here and now. So I would push for the (two or more) foreword idea - Lyn Barber...Stephen Fry...Samantha Fox...Scott Walker... The important thing is the book DOES get out there, because it IS an immediate classic. |
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JK2006 |
It was £50,000 actually! But I suspect Fat Max, banking his million from the News of the World, would insist he doesn't! |
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dixie |
Prunella Minge wrote:
I suspect the nudge some publishers might need is a suitable current 'mainstream' figure who'd write a foreword for the new edition. That would be my (pragmatic) suggestion (maybe two or three brief forewords, one by an industry 'insider', one an industry critic/commentator - strength in numbers and all that...). The book doesn't need it, but, in this depressingly non-ideal world, the publishers might.
Couldn't Simon write: "I've known JK for most of my working life, and was happy to put up the £30,000 bail money. Since then, my own pubicist has suggested I distance myself, but this is such a valid project, I can only support it." |
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Prunella Minge |
I don't know the company personally, but Metro Books also looks like it'd be worth a try (they published Bob Woffinden's last book, I think). I suspect the nudge some publishers might need is a suitable current 'mainstream' figure who'd write a foreword for the new edition. That would be my (pragmatic) suggestion (maybe two or three brief forewords, one by an industry 'insider', one an industry critic/commentator - strength in numbers and all that...). The book doesn't need it, but, in this depressingly non-ideal world, the publishers might. |
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veritas |
wonderful !! I haven't got a kindle but I may get one of those apple things.
on second thoughts I think you have to be a serial killer for Blake Publsihing to be intersted  |
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